Introduction

This document is the Scottish Government's Third Report
on Proposals and Policies, the Climate Change Plan, for meeting
greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets 2018-2032.

Finalising the Climate Change Plan

We laid the draft Plan before Parliament on 20 January 2017. It
was scrutinised by four Scottish Parliamentary Committees, a
process which generated over two hundred recommendations for the
Scottish Government as we worked to produce the final Plan. We have
considered these recommendations in the preparation of this Plan
and have published a written statement in pursuant of Section 35 of
the Climate Change (Scotland) Act which provides our responses to
the Committee reports.

We also received advice from:

the Committee on Climate Change (
CCC)

our Climate Change Plan Advisory Group

a broad range of stakeholders across many events and
meetings, both in terms of the general Plan and at a sectoral
level

The Plan has also benefited from the opinions and
recommendations of respondents to the Energy Strategy consultation.
Scottish Ministers are grateful to all the institutions, groups and
individuals who have helped us to improve and refine the Plan, and
the proposals and policies it contains.

This Plan also takes into account policy and statistical
developments, such as the new policies announced in A Nation with
Ambition: The Government's Programme for Scotland 2017-2018
(hereafter referred to in this document as 'the Programme for
Government 2017-2018") and relevant data published during 2017.